Prime Minister seeks momentum for Make in India agenda after policy signaling and Budget sops
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There is a human side to the General which many may not know or understand. Be it his orientation efforts of officers and subordinates to national commitment or the keen interest he took in providing alternate routes and equivalences to the NDA certifications of the services retired personnel, by engaging AICTE proactively, he was a soldier’s man all the way.
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Sweden’s Saab offers Gripen at “half the price paid for the Rafale”
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Alpha Design (ADTL) has marked its presence with critical technological development in defence. Alpha Design has success story based on its own R&D effort like the new Opto-electronic Tracker, upgrades to TIFCS for T-72 for other tank application and NAVIC Receiver with Indian GPS. Fact that ADTL is given the crucial task of upgrades for IAF's Mi-17 speaks much for the indigenous effort and policy thrust that a domestic private players can rise upto a tier 1 defence manufacture. Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd) Chairman & Managing Director, ADTL speaks with BW Businessworld’s Manish Kumar Jha on the futuristic technologies in defence and advance projects in space.
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Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the three-day ‘Rashtra Raksha Samarpan Parv’ in Jhansi on November 17, 2021. The festival will culminate on the birth anniversary of Rani of Jhansi Laxmi Bai on 19th November. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate several new initiatives of Ministry of Defence to the Nation in a grand ceremony being organised in the precincts of Jhansi Fort on November 19, 2021.
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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has an order basket of Rs 1 lakh crore, even as its sole preserve of manufacturing aircraft and equipment for the Indian defence forces gets invaded by private sector competitors. HAL is leveraging on its depth and confidence from LCA Tejas to Combat helicopters to Unmmaned systems. In a freewheeling chat, HAL’s Chairman and Managing Director R. Madhavan, talks to BW Businessworld’s Manish Kumar Jha of the many new projects on the anvil. Madhavan throws light on crucial projects: LCA Tejas Mk1a, Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter (TEDBF), AMCA, Tejas Mk 2, Trainer aircraft (HTT 40) and UAVs among others. Excerpts:
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Surged by the growth from the Indian startup sector from the expertise coming in from MSME and other growth drivers, the Indian defence industry is on the right track to global growth. Now the strength of any country’s military comes from the strength of the industry which is about building capabilities.
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Defence Industry leaders appreciated Prime Minister Modi’s policies for the turnaround in the defence sector and charted out strategies to take forward the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat in terms of defence production.
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